{"id":5241,"date":"2017-10-11T13:27:55","date_gmt":"2017-10-11T17:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/?p=5241"},"modified":"2024-07-08T06:06:14","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T10:06:14","slug":"social-media-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2017\/10\/11\/social-media-disaster\/","title":{"rendered":"How social media affects disaster coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5245\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5245\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5245\" src=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/1000w_q95-e1508383466414.jpg\" alt=\"A U.S. Marine helps a civilian airport employee deliver water for distribution\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5245\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dvidshub.net\/image\/3758408\/blt-2-6-joins-humanitarian-aid-victims-hurricane-irma-us-virgin-islands\"> LCpl Tojyea Matally, DVIDS, Public Domain<\/a>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Cliff Lampe<\/strong>, an associate professor of information, says there\u2019s a definite connection between social media and how news organizations cover disasters. For example, after Hurricane Irma hit the U.S. Virgin Islands on Sept. 6, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/World\/Americas\/2017\/0919\/How-social-media-helped-Caribbean-islanders-say-Don-t-forget-us\">stranded islanders flocked to social media<\/a> to reach families and friends. Facebook groups quickly formed with residents posting photos, updates, and requests for assistance.\u00a0As the Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram posts multiplied, reporters began reaching out\u00a0to interview eyewitnesses to the storm.\u00a0\u201cReporters will track hashtags and different social media channels and that will shape the different types of events they report on,&#8221; says Lampe. According to Lampe, there are three uses of social media during a natural disaster: coordinating the efforts of first responders, communicating between those affected and their broader network, and supporting recovery efforts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cliff Lampe, an associate professor of information, says there\u2019s a definite connection between social media and how news organizations cover disasters. For example, after Hurricane Irma hit the U.S. Virgin Islands on Sept. 6, stranded islanders flocked to social media to reach families and friends. Facebook groups quickly formed with residents posting photos, updates, and requests for assistance.\u00a0As\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2017\/10\/11\/social-media-disaster\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5245,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_umich_oidc_access":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[197,65],"class_list":["post-5241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news","tag-media","tag-social"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/1000w_q95-e1508383466414.jpg",600,400,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/1000w_q95-125x83.jpg",125,83,true],"medium":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/1000w_q95-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/1000w_q95-768x512.jpg",665,443,true],"large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/1000w_q95-700x467.jpg",600,400,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/1000w_q95-e1508383466414.jpg",600,400,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/1000w_q95-e1508383466414.jpg",600,400,false],"excerpt-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/1000w_q95-200x140.jpg",200,140,true],"themonic-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/1000w_q95-60x42.jpg",60,42,true],"ioslider-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/1000w_q95-658x300.jpg",658,300,true],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/1000w_q95-665x444.jpg",665,444,true],"400x250-crop":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/1000w_q95-e1508383466414.jpg",375,250,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"News Staff","author_link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/author\/mitnewsadm\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Cliff Lampe, an associate professor of information, says there\u2019s a definite connection between social media and how news organizations cover disasters. For example, after Hurricane Irma hit the U.S. Virgin Islands on Sept. 6, stranded islanders flocked to social media to reach families and friends. Facebook groups quickly formed with residents posting photos, updates, and&hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5241"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5251,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5241\/revisions\/5251"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}